Things Fall Apart
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- ISBN13: 9780030554384
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Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone – even if the only way he can master his feelings is with his fists. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, Okonowo takes violent action. Will the fantastic man’s treacherous pride eventually ruin him?Amazon.com Review
One of Chinua Achebe’s many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian clannish life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two years before Nigeria confirmed independence from Fantastic Britain, the book eschews the obvious temptation of depicting pre-colonial life as a kind of Eden. As a replacement for, Achebe sketches a world in which violence, war, and suffering exist, but are balanced by a strong sense of tradition, ritual, and social coherence. His Ibo protagonist, Okonkwo, is a self-made man. The son of a charming ne’er-do-well, he has worked all his life to overcome his father’s weakness and has arrived, finally, at fantastic prosperity and even greater reputation among his fellows in the village of Umuofia. Okonkwo is a champion wrestler, a prosperous farmer, spouse to three wives and father to several children. He is also a man who exhibits flaws well-known in Greek tragedy:
Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand. His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual dread of his fiery temper, and so did his small children. Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by dread, the dread of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the dread of evil and variable gods and of magic, the dread of the forest, and of the forces of scenery, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo’s dread was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the dread of himself, lest he should be establish to resemble his father.
And yet Achebe manages to make this cruel man deeply sympathetic. He is fond of his eldest daughter, and also of Ikemefuna, a young boy sent from another village as compensation for the wrongful death of a young woman from Umuofia. He even starts to feel pride in his eldest son, in whom he has too regularly seen his own father. Sorry to say, a series of tragic events tests the mettle of this strong man, and it is his dread of weakness that ultimately undoes him.
Achebe does not introduce the theme of colonialism until the last 50 pages or so. By then, Okonkwo has lost everything and been driven into exile. And yet, within the traditions of his culture, he still has hope of redemption. The arrival of missionaries in Umuofia, but, followed by representatives of the colonial government, completely disrupts Ibo culture, and in the gap between ancient ways and new, Okonkwo is lost forever. Deceptively simple in its prose, Things Fall Apart packs a powerful punch as Achebe holds up the ruin of one proud man to stand for the destruction of an entire culture. –Alix Wilber
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I can’t type anything because I did’nt read this book or I did’nt pay much attention to the tale because it did’nt catch my intrest; but I could tell you that Onkonkwo was very abusive to his family tree and he made his son feel low because he wanted him to be a man and he did’nt want him to be like his father because his father was an man who did nothing but play a flute and question people for money to drink up. He also treated him that way because he wanted him to keep continue a strong family tree and not make an mistake to weaken the family tree. He also treated his wives like crap and he showed no respect to them, but when Ikemefuna came to his house most of the things change because he quit beating his son and he treated his son with some respect.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I had to read this as required reading and it was so dumb. There are so many characters it is crazy. They all have African names so you can never tell them apart. This book was a waste of time. Very dull and pointless
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is a total piece of junk, I have to read it because my college class. Just a tale about a group of stupid people. The tale talk about a stupid abusive man who murder a white guy for no reason then kill himself.
If you reflect it is a excellent book because it talk about white guy colonize black African.The result of persons Africans are stupid too.
I am from Hong Kong when white guys colonize our city, everyone was pleased and keep building more money.
Don’t Buy this Book!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This was the absolute WORST book I’ve ever read in my life. My English teacher made me read it over the summer and I despised it. It’s this dull hard to know book about this guy in Nigeria just livin’ his life. Then he accedentally kills this kid and is sent into excile for seven years. These people come from Europe trying to make the people more civilized and become Christians. So this guy gets mad when he comes back from exile. While they were at a meeting trying to figure out what to do, a messenger comes and the guy gets mad and shoots him. Then he goes home and hangs himself. All of that happens in the three hundred pages. It was an dreadful book and I would not suggest it to anyone. I wish I could give it no stars. Yeah, it was that terrible.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Well…….I reflect this book well, it just SUXED. I could not know this! It makes no sense. Why coudln’t they just at least change the names you could at least pronoucne it, ne ways if you plot on reading it, your want lots of time, so u can know it. Excellent Luck…
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5